Friday, October 15, 2010

The Bee's Knees are PDFs

I just discovered a glaringlyobviousmistake in a blanket I'm making - glaringlyobviouswhentheendshavebeenwoven in andtheblanketedged. It's enoughtomakemeweep - butthankfullymyill-temperhasbeenmollifiedbythediscoveryof just theniftiestlittletoolever.

Basically, it's a websitethattransformsotherwebsitesintoPDFs. That's right - youknow all ofthosepatternsyou'vebookmarkedtokeep? Well, copyandpastethepagelinkofthepatternintothelittletextboxonthissite - and Bob's youruncle. Youcan print all yourpatternsoutand hold them in yourlittlefingers. Isn't that just thebee's knees?

2 comments:

Just found your blog and I love it; I've been reading through all the old entries. I wanted to tell you there are also programs that will let you "print" anything in a PDF form. I use CutePDF Writer ( http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp ). Anything you can print from a home printer can be "printed" as a PDF. Just go through the same steps you would to print (ctrl+p), select CutePDF as the printer, and it makes & saves it as a PDF.

I have a "To Crochet" folder on my computer, so whenever I run across patterns online I "print" them straight to the folder as PDFs. I also have PDFs of crochet books, so I do the same with patterns there (just select the pages with the pattern I want). If you get really fancy, you can print several digital pictures into one PDF file.